Effexor Class Action Lawsuit

I have the same problem, and would also like to file suit against Effexor. I have been on it for about 4-5 years, and have tried numerous time, unsuccessfully, to get off. 

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I have been on and off Effexor for 10 years and have been trying to get off the medication.  I experience extreme, violent nauseau like I have never experienced before, night sweats, and dizziness.  I feel like I can't move my head or eyes without feeling like the room is spinning.  My doctors always prescribe an anti nauseau medicine when I try and go off the Effexor but it doesn't help.  Nothing helps.  I am so angry there was never a disclaimer and that my doctor did not communicate how dependent I would become.  This drug should be illegal.  I am very interested if you are still looking for other participants in the law suit.  

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I have been taking effexor xr 225 mg for a really long time, and my ins was canceled. I had to stop cold turkey, and for the last 8 days I have been going through hell! I'm a single mother of 2 young boys 6 & 8, and if it wasn't for my family friend/ roommate my boys would not have been able to get to and from school...constantly feel these electric type shocks in my head and body. I can't move, drive or anything without becoming extremely dizzy. I feel like I'm constantly drunk. I called the Dr and his only solution is to put me back on it??? No way!!! I've gone this far, I'm not doing this again. I feel sick all the time in all unspeakable ways. I just want my life back!!!! Who is this lawyer you have? Can he/she help me...I've lost job opportunities, and my children miss me...i miss them, and we r in the same house...i hurt everywhere, and I can't move out of this bed...i even need help to the restroom and to bathe! I'm beyond frustrated. Please help!

Hello i have been on effexor for over 10 years now, im in Canada, alberta. Whats happening now is im getting like electric shocks through my body!! its terrible, i hate it and im not even trying to get off it, when i did mention it to the doctor he was just going stop perscriping it to me?!!! what? he said you be ok, i said forget it, hes not the doctor that put me on it another doctor did due to being diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, he prescriped effexor and zoplicone a sleeping pill and now i am so dependent on both of these i cant sleep without zoplicone and cant go off effexor, what can i do?

Im in the process of coming off 300 mgs of effexor a day. I was even on 375 at one point. I was on 150 mg's 2 weeks ago but just completely stopped taking it. So now 2 weeks in i am having times of my brain feeling good where i start thinking im free to times of rage, irritation, brain zaps, feeling mentally unstable. Then i will feel fine again. then i will think maybe this is it for dizziness, brain zaps and im free then it will come back worst than ever. So frustrating. We should all start a kik group or whatsapp group or something.

I am interested in getting on board with a lawsuit...

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My withdraw symptoms have been excruciating to say the least. I'm a retired teacher, 54 years old, and I'm a recovering alcohol. My medical bills have caused a financial hardship on my family, not to mention the way they were traumatized by my unpredictatable behaviors. This was horrific. Wat worse than withdrawing from alcohol 10 years ago. Count me in the class action lawsuit!!!

Can Somebody help me? I been on Effexor for 7 years this coming June. It was first prescribed for Post pardom depression, then In 2012 I started getting bad Panic attacks, while on it but I did suffer a car accident too the prior year. I am now diagnosed as PTSD. I went to the hospital for 2 weeks in the beginning of,May 2015. To tapper off it because I couldn't handle the withdrawls, now I'm home and and its June 7 and still get thoughts of ending my pain and suffering, of still experiencing unbearable withdrawls. My head hurts and my Panic attacks heightened, my Depression is severe and I'm crying all the time. I feel so sick to my stomach. I'm agorafobic to go anywhere, and the physiatrist tried to force me to take clonazapam, knowing it made me sick to my stomach and my balance coordination was off, I was more depressed on it, it had bad side effects. He tried me on Wellbutrin but I had a seizer on it. I'm so sad and don't look forward to waking up even tho, I have kids to take care of. I'm easily agitated and irritable. I struggle with rage and thoughts of harming myself. The effexor also made me gain 100lbs in a short amount of time. I feel so alone and my memory isn't good, my eyes are blurry. :,( I'm in so much pain from this antidepressant, I feel so out of touch with reality. I don't know what to do? :,( it ruined my life and possibly my mind. Please help.

I forgot to mention the phciatrist was gone for 3 days when I was, in the hospital and the nurses took me off cold turkey from 150mg. I live in Canada and want to be in on the lawsuit.

I've been taking Effexor 150mg for over 12 years now for menopause. I'm a 2 time survivor of breast cancer off disability can no longer afford Effexor trying to wean off of it, had no idea how hard it is, the withdrawal is worse than chemotherapy.

Really hope something will come of this! I've been debilitated for over two years after my last attempt to withdraw from Effexor. I worry I'll never be able to get off this stuff.

I took effexor 6 mos after my son was born for postpartum depression. Started on 37.5 wsnt up a few months latsr. When i missed a day for the first time i ended up in the hospital and from there on i started my days with taking my pill and nevsr left the house without my bottle. When i started to come put of my depression i was left with irritability and bad anxiety. I told dr and they upped the dose. A week later i told dr i dodnt like the way i was feeling and can we get me off the ri6med. Instead she tried to up dosage to 150 and i gave it a try. That day i almost ended up in a mental hospital. I decided to try and quit taking it altogether. I made it a half a day before calling to get on 75 again. 5 more mos of takin it religiously i finally came to realize all i was getting from the effexor was a feeling of numbness from reality and a life of what felt like a drug addict. This has ruined my life in so many ways. I got the courage to go see a psychologist to wean me off. After 1 week w/o i went back on it my own for 2 weeks and got back to 37.5. I had 0 refills left so i had to suck it up and try cold turkey. Not possible. Paranoia, nausea, sick achy feeling, insomnia, brain zaps from hell, anger crying spouts. I had to get an klonopin and tried starting lexapro. When the klons ran out i was back to crazy withdraws. Its been 1 month i srill have the symptoms, my life is all screwed up snd i barely finction. Please sign me up for this petition asap Get effexor gone for good! Hell is probably better than this nightmare

I had the worst withdrawal symptoms simply too many to type out... I got off of it by accident.. I got sick and took allegergy medications with ephedrine in them and it stopped the 6 months to a year battle. Id def be interested in joining

I took this toxic drug also never knowing or being warned of the potential dangers were I to fall pregnant. I fell pregnant and my daughter was born with persistent pulmonary hypertension. Was in NICU for almost a month on CPAP. She still has a murmur. Since stopping the meds I have had protracted withdrawals for 10 months. This drug is dangerous! People need to must never consider it as an option. I'd love to sue these pharmaceutical bastards if I wasn't so sick still from withdrwals. The worst of the syptoms that I still have are chronic insomnia that I've never suffered from in my life, mood fluctuations, tinnitus, nausea and fatigue.

Nearly 10 years at 300mg Effexor. Several occasions tried to reduce. It's taken one year (despite my doctor's urging not) to reduce to 150mg. Prior experiences include job losses and worse, week long stays at psychiatric units. Miss a dose and i'm screwed for several days, incompetent. Quitting effexor is more difficult than stopping smoking. In 2011, over the course of 8 months, I gradually reduced and stopped. Suicidal ideations increased to an extent that I went to ER, then was hospitalized (and heavily drugged) for 10 days.